ivy

See also: Ivy and -ivý

English

Ivy growing near and climbing up trees.

Etymology

From Middle English ivi, from Old English īfiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *ibig, *ibag, *ibah, from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (compare Welsh efwr (“black elder”), Ancient Greek ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike-lavender, Lavandula Spica”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: īʹvē, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪvi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪvi

Noun

ivy (countable and uncountable, plural ivies)

1. Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
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2. (by extension) Any similar plant of any genus.

Hypernyms

• climber, creeper, liana

Hyponyms

• (plants in Hedera): See Hedera.

Coordinate terms

• kudzu
• vine

Derived terms

Terms derived from ivy

• Algerian ivy (Hedera algeriensis)
• American ivy (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
• Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• Cape ivy (Delairea odorata)
• coliseum ivy (Cymbalaria muralis)
• common ivy (Hedera helix)
• devil's ivy (Epipremnum aureum)
• eastern poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
• English ivy (Hedera helix)
• European ivy (Hedera helix)
• German ivy (Delairea odorata and Senecio mikanioides)
• gout ivy (Ajuga)
• grape ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• ground ivy, ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
• ivied
• ivy arum (Epipremnum aureum)
• Ivybridge
• Ivy City
• ivy geranium (Pelargonium peltatum)
• ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis)
• ivy-leaf, ivy-leaved
• Ivy League
• ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)
• ivy of Uruguay (Cissus striata)
• ivy owl (Strix aluco)
• ivy tree (Schefflera heptaphylla)
• Japanese ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• Kenilworth ivy (Cymbalaria muralis)
• marine ivy (Ampelopsis cordata, Cissus incisa)
• Mexican ivy (Cobaea scandens)
• Natal ivy (Senecio macroglossus)
• Oxford ivy (Cymbalaria muralis)
• parlour ivy (Senecio mikanioides)
• poison ivy, poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
• purple ivy (Rhododendron catawbiense)
• red-flame ivy (Hemigraphis alternata)
• sulphur of ivy
• Swedish ivy (Plectranthus verticillatus)
• switch ivy (Leucothoe fontanesiana)
• wax ivy (Senecio macroglossus)
• weeping ivy (Ficus benjamina)
• western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
• West Indian ivy (Marcgravia spp.)

 

Translations

plant of the genus Hedera

• Albanian: dredhkë (sq) f, hurdhe f
• Arabic: لَبْلَاب m (lablāb)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բաղեղ (hy) (baġeġ)
• Aromanian: eadirã f, eadiri f, iadirã f
• Asturian: hedra f
• Azerbaijani: sarmaşıq (az)
• Basque: huntz, xira
• Breton: iliavenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: бръшлян m (brǎšljan)
• Catalan: heura (ca) f, hedra (ca) f
• Chechen: хутал-буц (xutal-buc)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏗ (ulvdi)
• Cornish: idhyow f pl
• Corsican: eddera f, ellera f, eddara f, ellara f, lellera f, lellara f, lillura f
• Czech: břečťan (cs) m
• Dacian: arpropria
• Danish: efeu c, vedbend
• Dutch: klimop (nl) m or n, eiloof (nl) n
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: hedero
• Estonian: luuderohi (et)
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: viðbenda f, viðbendil m
• Finnish: muratti (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: lierre (fr) m
• Friulian: jêre f
• Galician: hedra f, hedreira f, malvela f, areira f, ireira f
• Gallo: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: სურო (suro)
• German: Efeu (de) m or n
• Greek: κισσός (el) m (kissós)

  Ancient: κισσός m (kissós)

• Hebrew: קיסוס m (kissós)
• Hungarian: borostyán (hu)
• Icelandic: bergflétta (is) f
• Ido: hedero (io)
• Irish: eidhneachán m, eidhneán m, eidheann m
• Istriot: please add this translation if you can
• Istro-Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: edera (it) f
• Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 담쟁이 (ko) (damjaeng'i)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: hedera f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Leonese: please add this translation if you can
• Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: gebenė f
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Low German: Ieloof n
• Luxembourgish: Eefeu m, Wantergréng m or n
• Macedonian: бршлен (mk) m (bršlen)
• Mandarin: 常春藤 (zh) (chángchūnténg)
• Manx: hibbin
• Megleno-Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: eføy (no) m
• Occitan: èdra (oc) f
• Old English: īfiġ n
• Persian: عشقه (fa) ('ašaqe), پاپیتال (fa) (pâpitâl), سن (fa) (san), بلوه (fa) (balve)
• Piedmontese: ardité f
• Polish: bluszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: hera (pt) f
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: iederă (ro) f
• Romansch: fegliadella f, edra f
• Russian: плющ (ru) m (pljušč)
• Sardinian: edora f, edola, edera
• Scottish Gaelic: eidheann f, eidheannach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бршљан m

  Roman: bršljan (sh) m

• Sicilian: èdira (scn) f, èddira (scn), ètira (scn), èddara (scn), arrèddira (scn) f, lèddira (scn) f
• Slovak: brečtan m
• Slovene: bršljan m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: blušć m

  Upper Sorbian: blušć m

• Spanish: hiedra (es) f
• Swahili: mwefeu, lablabu
• Swedish: murgröna (sv)
• Tarantino: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sarmaşık (tr)
• Ukrainian: плющ m (pljušč)
• Venetan: èłera, ènera, èrena, èrna, èroła f
• Vietnamese: thường xuân
• Volapük: hed (vo)
• Welsh: iorwg m, eiddew m
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

similar plant

• Finnish: köynnös (fi)
• Japanese: 蔦 (ja) (tsuta)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} brečtan m
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} eiddew, ^{(please verify)} iorwg

Further reading

• ivy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hedera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies